{"id":5464,"date":"2018-03-09T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T22:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2024-05-14T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T17:00:27","slug":"training-transferring-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/training-transferring-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Training Transferring to the Workplace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As companies rely more and more on their team\u2019s knowledge, skills and abilities; we must ask: How well is your training transferring to the workplace?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/training-courses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5466 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/training-courses.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with words and icons related to training, including coaching, teaching, knowledge, skills, experience, and development.\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/training-courses.jpg 1639w, https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/training-courses-600x424.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/training-courses-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/training-courses-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/training-courses-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The True Cost of Training and Development<\/h3>\n<p>Here is the scenario:\u00a0 You have taken the initiative and spent $1,200 per employee for learning and development training.<\/p>\n<p>Your company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/en\/library\/1905\/business\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leadership<\/a> spent the time to develop the courses, somewhere between 40 and 80 hours, for one hour of instructor-led training.\u00a0\u00a0Your team spent time away from their jobs to obtain the training; factoring in employee wages and productivity losses.<\/p>\n<p>You send your employees off into the workplace hoping they learned something they can use in their day to day activities.\u00a0 Was it worth it?\u00a0 How do you measure the success of training?<\/p>\n<p>Your employees have a certificate proving they attended, a nice addition to their employee file, but did they walk away with new knowledge they can use?\u00a0 Did they retain anything that was covered in the training?<\/p>\n<h3>Skills Learned in Training Rarely Transfer<\/h3>\n<p>According to statistics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shiftelearning.com\/blog\/statistics-on-corporate-training-and-what-they-mean-for-your-companys-future\">only 12 percent of learners apply the skills from training<\/a> to their job and only 25 percent of training programs improve business performance.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.td.org\/insights\/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training-updated-for-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">time it takes to develop a training program<\/a>\u00a0is often an overlooked factor in training budgets.\u00a0 However, developing a course and training structure that will enable employees to utilize what they learned in the workplace to increase their productivity, is profoundly important.<\/p>\n<p>New Flexible Learning Management Systems are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearninglearning.com\/2017\/industry\/trends\/?open-article-id=7649078&amp;article-title=elearning-trends-for-2018&amp;blog-domain=knowledgedirectweb.com&amp;blog-title=association-elearning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking corporate training to new levels<\/a> with Virtual Reality, Gamification, Social Learning, and Personalization.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Improve Retention Rates<\/h3>\n<p>A well-developed training program can deliver the training anywhere, anytime, and in smaller bite-sized chunks.\u00a0 The key to retention is delivering engaging training, in smaller segments that can be accessed anytime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talentlms.com\/blog\/8-tips-techniques-learning-retention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allowing for repeatability and reference.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When your team can go back and repeat a difficult segment of the training or reference that section later during the workday, the retention and utilization of the training is transferred to the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgecity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KnowledgeCity.com<\/a>\u00a0has courses that are designed with training retention in mind. 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